Mr Moran, teacher of French and History from St Matthew's RC High School, accompanied by Mr Green, Assistant headteacher from St Matthew’s and 4 teachers from Germany, visited the Modern Languages Department at Loreto to learn about high-tech teaching and learning in modern languages and how it can deliver exceptional exam results.

Loreto’s German A level results are some of the most impressive in the country with 50% achieving the top A* grade. And the English-language teachers from Chemnitz in Saxony, Germany, were shown how this is done with a demonstration of the latest hi-tech interactive whiteboard techniques.

The visit was arranged through links with St Matthew’s RC High School in Moston, Manchester, which already has connections with the Chemnitz school. It’s now hoped to establish links between Loreto’s A level students and the school’s sixth form.

Mr Knight, Head of Modern Languages at Loreto, showed the visitors a variety of techniques including how to make short movies of lessons and resources that students can then access from home.

He explained that the guests then observed a German AS lesson taught by Ms Varley who works in the college’s Modern Languages Department: “Ms Varley’s spectacular A-level results have become a byword for excellence, with astonishing achievements like 50% A* at A2 level this year,” he said.

The city of Chemnitz was part of East Germany and the Soviet Bloc until the re-unification of Germany in 1990